Bulletin Board: Genre

Teaching genre? Here is a board Ms. Burtram created for just that topic! This would be a great board to have a few of your kids reproduce during R and E.

Bulletin Board: Bee a Good Reader

Here is a fun bulletin board for keeping track of accomplishments. We use this board to celebrate when a student has completed a Versatile book. Each flower represents a specific book. When a student has successfully completed each exercise in a specific book, his/her bee goes up next to that flower. This would work for any list of accomplishments you had - like, for example, your study island assignments.

Bulletin Board: Thinking Strategies Good Readers Use

This would be a fabulous board to let some of your kids work on during R and E - they are learning reading strategies (and hopefully thinking about them) as they are creating a great reminder for all of your students. If I have visited your class during DEAR, this board was created using the same template as the handouts I gave your students. If you would like your own copies of that handout, and some other great reading posters/bookmarks/etc. click here.

Bulletin Board: French Phrases

French Phrases
How we used this board:
Step One: We took each French phrase from the Tennessee middle school SPI's and created a board with the word, definition, and a visual reminder.
Step Two: Students recreated the board on construction paper, creating original visual reminders.
(You can let some of your kids come in during R and E to create the original board - they will come up with really creative visuals!) 

Bulletin Board: Synonym Rolls

Fresh Baked Synonym Rolls
Here is how we used this board last year:
Step One: We had our students read an informational text about Lewis and Clark.
Step Two: Each student chose from the story a word he/she thought would have multiple synonyms.
Step Three: Each student made a synonym roll, starting the roll with the word he/she had selected from the text and continuing with synonyms from the thesaurus.
Step Four: We chose our favorite synonym rolls and used them to create a bulletin board.

Bulletin Board: Text Features

Text Features Bulletin Board
R and E Activity:
Pull 4-5 high kids into your R and E class. Give them magazines and/or newspapers and show them a picture of this board. Ask them to find and cut out an example of each text feature on the board (a couple of features - like the index - may need to be photocopied from a textbook). Once they are done, they can check with you to make sure that each of their examples in acceptable. Then, let them use their samples to create a bulletin board like the one in the picture.